The reports insist that «Rouhollah Zam», the chief of Amad News press editorial board , some members of the «royalists groups» and members of «Iranian Kurdish» groups are among the targets of this operation.Ruhollah Zam is an Iranian journalist and the son of a conservative cleric Mohammad Ali Zam and a prominent Iranian journalist who played a high-profile role in the Iranian protests of December 2017. He is the editor in chief of Amad News, a prominent Iranian opposition news website and Telegram channel.

In days of old, the Nizaris targeted military or political figures, and were not known to have indiscriminately slaughtered civilians. In the ranks of today’s MOIS, there is a section known as “Department 15”, which is basically a team of brutal regime enforcers, who just like the ancient Nizaris, carry out assassinations abroad. Modern day victims of MOIS assassins, often tend to be Iranian dissidents, who pose a threat to the regime. The murders carried out are terribly brutal, designed to instil fear into the hearts of any dissenter brave enough to speak out against the regime, and some of the victims of these hit squads, have died in the most barbaric of fashions.

Many of these murders, have been placed at the door of Department 15, not only is the group tasked with assassinations, it is also tasked with “exporting revolution”. Their operatives travel the globe under various disguises, often using the cover of an embassy, or that of a front company setup especially for this purpose, giving them the ability to liaise with various terrorist groups or resistance movements that share common enemies.

Once making a connection, Department 15 then build-up a working relationship with such groups, forging links through carrying out shared military operations, or shipping their proxies’ weapons.